Radio Free HPC Looks into the New OpenCAPI Consortium

Released this week by the newly formed OpenCAPI Consortium, OpenCAPI provides an open, high-speed pathway for different types of technology – advanced memory, accelerators, networking and storage – to more tightly integrate their functions within servers. This data-centric approach to server design, which puts the compute power closer to the data, removes inefficiencies in traditional system architectures to help eliminate system bottlenecks and can significantly improve server performance.

Dan points us to a Berkeley Lab demonstration of a 1-nanometer transistor gate. Current production fabs at places like Intel are currently at 14 nanometers, so this developments shows that our circuits can indeed continue to sweet.

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In this podcast, Terri Quinn from LLNL provides an update on Hardware and Integration (HI) at the Exascale Computing Project. "The US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories will acquire, install, and operate the nation’s first exascale-class systems. ECP is responsible for assisting with applications and software and accelerating the research and development of critical commercial exascale system hardware. ECP’s Hardware and Integration research focus area (HI), was created to help the laboratories and the ECP teams achieve success through mutually beneficial collaborations." [Read More...]

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For this report, DDN performed a number of experimental benchmarks to attain optimal IO rates for Paradigm Echos application workloads. It present results from IO intensive Echos micro-benchmarks to illustrate the DDN GRIDScaler performance benefits and provide some detail to aid optimal job packing in 40G Ethernet clusters. To find out the results download this guide.